mercurochrome
French, noun/mɛʁ.ky.ʁɔ.kʁom/
mercurochrome is a French masculine noun meaning “antiseptic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Antiseptique de couleur rouge qui contenait de la merbromine (ou mercurescéine sodique) dont l'usage est…”.
What does mercurochrome mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineantiseptic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Antiseptique de couleur rouge qui contenait de la merbromine (ou mercurescéine sodique) dont l'usage est désormais interdit.
noun: 1. Antiseptique de couleur rouge qui contenait de la merbromine (ou mercurescéine sodique) dont l’usage est désormais interdit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mercurochrome
- mercurochromes plural
- Mercurochrome
- mercurochrome canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mercurochrome?
- /mɛʁ.ky.ʁɔ.kʁom/
- \mɛʁ.ky.ʁo.kʁom\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mercurochrome in French?
mercurochrome appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).